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Director Danny Boyle on Why “Steve Jobs” Is Not a Biopic

“Steve Jobs” is more than just a biopic. Director Danny Boyle explains the unique approach he took by shooting the movie in three different film formats to capture the life and achievements of the Apple co-founder.




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Inside the Making of the Apatosaurus from ‘Jurassic World’

In this behind-the-scenes video from the making of ‘Jurassic World,’ director Colin Trevorrow explains why he needed an animatronic dinosaur for one key scene.




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Guillermo del Toro's Top 5 Horror Films

The "Crimson Peak" director lists his favorite scary movies of all time and talks about his own encounters with ghosts.




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Star Wars The Force Awakens | What We Know Now

The world was treated to the newest Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer on Monday. WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin breaks down what we know and don't know about the new film.




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Is NYC Really the Greatest City in the World?

What do other cities have that NYC doesn't? Well, Europe's great food halls, Sydney's robust ferry system, and Moscow's elegant train stations for starters. New York city-based architects Vishaan Chakrabarti and Gregg Pasquarelli analyze how urban metropolis from around the world stack up against the city that never sleeps.




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Cooking With Fire: Testing the Sansaire Searing Kit for Sous Vide

Sous vide machines can make tasty fare but the technique often leaves meat gray and unappetizing. WIRED's Adam Rogers fires up the $159 Sansaire Sear home blowtorch to add a little sizzle to a steak.




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SB 100 - Inside the Wilson Football Factory

Take a look inside the factory in Ada, Ohio where every single NFL game ball is made by hand.




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Watch the Sun Erupt in a Symphony of Solar Storms

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite uses specialized ultraviolet cameras to capture stunning images of the sun's solar storms.




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Cyborg Nation - Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.




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Cyborg Nation - Mind-Controlled Machines Give Paralyzed Patients New Hope

Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is leading the frontier on mind-controlled exoskeletons that can translate thoughts into physical movement. Go inside his lab and find out how he’s helping paraplegics control aid-enabling devices just by thinking.




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Cyborg Nation - This Robotic Hand Can Touch and Feel, Just Like a Human Hand

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the prosthetic hand field by mimicking the sensation a hand feels with synthetic fingernails and fingerprints.




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Cyborg Nation - How to Control Things Using Your Brain (and Open-Source Hardware)

OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation. From using brain activity to control a toy spider to engaging a group in collective mind control, the open-source brain computer interface aims to change the way people interact with machines.




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Cyborg Nation - This Technology Wants to Make Wheelchairs Obsolete

Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.




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Cyborg Nation - Can Prosthetics Outperform Real Limbs?

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.




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Inside the World of Drone Racing

It’s a new industry, but the world of drone racing is quickly becoming a popular sport. Watch to learn about the tech behind it and find out what the Drone Racing League is all about.




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App Pack | VR Apps For Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard and a smartphone are all you need to experience the immersive world of virtual reality. WIRED's Molly McHugh explores apps for news, gaming, and thrills.




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SB 100 - SB100: Check Out a Reimagined NFL Stadium for the Future

In the future, NFL teams won't play in sterile concrete bowls. Instead, they will play in multi-use spaces near the urban core, redefining our idea of what a stadium is.




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Think Like a Tree - How Sea Organisms Are Changing the Way We Make Glue

Your new kitchen cabinets might contain a glue in them that was inspired by mussels. Explore the chemistry that mussels use when attaching to boats and find out how that science is being imitated to develop strong adhesives that don’t rely on toxic formaldehyde.




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Gift Guide | Headphones for Everyone

Do you or love music? Does someone on your gift list? Then you probably need some nice headphones. Here's how to pick the right pair and fit them for the best sound.




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WIRED – December 2015 – The Force Will Be With Us. Always.

Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops. Neither is making movies. In preparation for Star Wars: Episode VII, WIRED’s Editor in Chief Scott Dadich sat down with J.J. Abrams to discuss his trajectory from awestruck super fan to the director of The Force Awakens. Also this month: Transforming the Pentagon with Silicon Valley, how India’s decision on energy can affect the entire planet, the amazing products to give and get this holiday season, plus more.




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Lighting Up the World With a One-of-a-Kind Tesla Model S

In order to cast a light on a global issue like climate change, the team behind the new film Racing Extinction turned a standard Tesla Model S into a “mobile projection vehicle.” See what mods they made, and follow along at www.facebook.com/racingextinction




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I Went to the Drone World Expo and Saw the Future. It Sounds Like Bees

This is the first annual Drone World Expo, 75 exhibitors and over 2,000 drone pros in the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley.




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Testing Out the Star Wars BB-8 Toy & More Gadget Gifts with YouTuber MKBHD

From the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch to the Star Wars Sphero BB-8 toy, Youtuber MKBHD gives a few gadgets a spin to help you figure out what to put on your wish list this holiday season.




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YouTube Star MKBHD Reviews the Best Holiday Gifts for Your Favorite Techie

Not sure what to get your tech-head friends for the holidays? YouTube star MKBHD reviews the Fitbit ChargeHR, Verizon’s Droid Turbo 2, and the Bose SoundLink mini speaker so you can get the right gadget for the right guy or gal.




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Design FX - How “The Good Dinosaur” Raised the Bar for Natural-World CGI

Find out how Pixar raised the CGI bar for ultra-realistic environments and landscapes in “The Good Dinosaur.”




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Making Sense of All the New Force Awakens Footage

It might seem like we've been watching the same Star Wars: The Force Awakens clips for months, but new clues emerge each time a new trailer, clip or teaser is released.




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This Guy Can Teach You How to Memorize Anything

Joshua Foer can remember anything, including the first 100 digits of Pi. The former U.S.A. Memory Champion explains how he—and you—can memorize anything using the major system technique, which converts numbers into words and images.




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NASA Would Take C-3P0 to Space But Not R2-D2 or BB-8

Brett Kennedy, a roboticist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, breaks down the plausibility (or lack thereof) of Star Wars characters like R2-D2, C-3PO and the new BB-8.




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How to Build a Death Star According to a NASA Engineer

NASA’s Brian Muirhead explains how to build a Death Star and tells us what it would really be like to fly past a flurry of asteroids.




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Coravin's Wine Gadget Lets You Drink One Glass Now, Save the Rest

The $330 Coravin Wine System beats a corkscrew any day and makes sipping and saving wine easy. It slides thorough the cork and fills the bottle with an inert gas as you pour, so leftover wine won't spoil.




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Star Wars: The Force Awakens | WIRED Movie Review

If you loved Star Wars once, everything you loved is back. And if you’re new? Welcome home.




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Meet the Star Wars Fans Who Lined Up Two Weeks Before the Premiere

We caught up with fans who lined up for tickets nearly two weeks before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From keeping your job to keeping your marriage, the cosplay-dressing superfans break down the rules to waiting in line.




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Darth Vader Force-Chokes Star Wars Fans in Line for The Force Awakens

Outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood unsuspecting fans find out what it’s like to get force-choked by Darth Vader.




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Wired's Top Five Entertainment Stories Of 2015

Music wars, television scandals, movie masterpieces and major disappointments, 2015 had it all. Have a look at our biggest entertainment stories from the last year.




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Wired's Top Five Security Stories Of 2015

2015 showed that the Internet is a dangerous place. Whether it’s your cellular-connected car or personal details on an adulterous dating website, no one seems safe anymore.




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Wired's Top Five Science Stories of 2015

It was a good year for finding stuff out and our favorite science stories all revealed something about the universe.




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Wired's Top Five Transportation Stories

Getting from A to B has never been more exciting than it was in 2015. We've got the best transportation stories of the year for you.




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SB 100: How Virtual Reality Works as a Training Tool

Andrew Wasserman from Strivr explains how virtual reality helps top athletes get better, and how the technology is getting more and more realistic.




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CES 2016 - Fridges for the Future

LG's Signature Fridge and Samsung's Family Hub Refrigerator concepts are a glimpse of the future of connected, touchscreen and app-controlled refrigerators that might even order their own groceries.




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CES 2016 - Four Gadgets That Could Make Life More Convenient

WIRED executive editor Joe Brown checks out a temperature regulating coffee cup, a connected flowerpot, a remote pet food dispenser and a very loud speaker that doubles as a beverage cooler.




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CES 2016 - Polaroid's New Super-Cute, Super-Affordable Printing Camera

Print those selfies immediately! Polaroid's Snap camera is perfect for any party and it costs less than $100.




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CES 2016 - WIRED's Favorite Gadgets of CES

CES is a seemingly endless bonanza of product debuts. Everything from cars and drones to headphones and televisions is on display and in mind-boggling quantities. These products are WIRED's favorites.




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WIRED Lab - The NASA Illustrator Who Hides Sci-Fi Easter Eggs in Official Images of Space

Visualization specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Hurt, tells us how he balances scientific accuracy and creativity when creating stunning pieces of art that double as realistic depictions of space.




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SB 100 - Coming Soon for Artificial Intelligence? Coaching Football

The application of artificial intelligence to play-calling is already upon us. Last spring, two students at North Carolina State built a model to predict whether an NFL team would pass or run, information that would hugely benefit defensive coordinators.




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Design FX - Inside the Incredible Visual Effects of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects that earned “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” an Oscar nod. See how Industrial Light & Magic crafted complex action sequences, detailed environments, and realistic characters with the help of advanced motion-capture technology and performances from actors like Lupita Nyong’o.




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Absurd Creatures | The Voracious Fish That Looks Like a Pug and Stings Like a Bee

The stargazer spends its entire life looking like it just walked in on something...unseemly. The fish, which ambushes prey from the sea floor, also sports venomous spines and an electric shock.




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Nice Storm: The Blizzard of 2016 Is a Scientific Classic

Winter Storm Jonas is hitting the East Coast hard. Yeah, you’ve heard this before and been burned, but too many forecasts are aligning for this one to be a fluke.




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How to Make a Stormtrooper Breakdance

Star Wars and hip hop together as they were meant to be. WIRED's Eric Steuer demonstrates how to get original trilogy action figures doing sick headspins.




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Victor Krummenacher Performs "If You Don't Break My Heart, I Don't Stand A Chance"

Victor Krummenacher, co-founder and bassist in legendary California rock band Camper Van Beethoven and WIRED managing art director, performs "If You Don't Break My Heart, I Don't Stand A Chance" at WIRED's San Francisco offices.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Watching the Super Bowl

Load up your phone with some crucial apps that'll help you better enjoy the biggest game of the year.